Lucke Barth Law

As a small specialized practice, we focus on client satisfaction. Our philosophy is that we need to provide each client with the best customer service possible. This is done by assuring every client that their matter is of utmost importance to our office.
We are conveniently located in the Ross Industrial Area near the MacDonald Street exit on the Ring Road. We are the closest Law Firm to the Co-Op Upgrader and have lots of free parking.

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I previously had a post called "Is Your Lawyer To Busy?". A client has recently switched from a previous firm and the previous firm provided their file. I was surprised to see that the previous firm had done little to move the lawsuit forward in several years. The lawsuit was not complicated and since the client was a Plaintiff, it is the Plaintiff's lawyer's job to move the Plaintiff's lawsuit ahead to trial.

I suspect that there are a lot of lawyers that view legal work as just work, and don't see things from their client's point of view...

I recently gave a client a real estate quote for transferring title from the spouse's sole name into joint names. I was surprised when the client said that another firm had quoted twice as much for Land Titles transfer fees.

When transferring title and one of the names on title remains the same, Land Titles will usually charge half the standard fee. This happens often when parties seperate and one spouse comes off the title and the other remains...

Parents often want to help their children buy their first house. Often they give their child a large amount of money towards the purchase. The child then makes the regular monthly mortgage payments.

The problem is that if the child divorces, half the money you gave your child then goes to their ex-spouse. This is not the parent's usual intention.

The only way to avoid this problem is to transfer money to your child as a loan instead of a gift. The terms and conditions of the loan will have to be in writing and signed by your child and their spouse...

Farming these days is big business. It involves big expensive machines, lots of pricy farmland, and sometimes big profits. Can you afford to give half of it away to your former spouse?

Under the Saskatchewan Family Property Act, farmers get to keep the property they had when married, but not the property's increase in value during the course of the marriage. The home quarter also gets split 50/50 even if owned prior to marriage. In a typical long term farm marriage, most of the land was purchased after marriage, or increased greatly in value after marriage...